Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cycles and those who study these cyclical patterns have already found evidence that a new one is in the offing for this winter. During the past two winters, the heavy snows have struck northern New England very early in the season and have made Thanksgiving and pre-Christmas ski conditions the best and most reliable of the season. Yet, many of the areas which were able to open up with full operation at Thanksgiving were forced into limited roles by Christmas-time and even through much of the rest of the season. The characteristically late February and March blizzards...
...THIS YEAR New England has yet to be hit with anything even resembling a heavy snow storm. The only skiing over the Thanksgiving weekend was done on thin strips of artificial snow which greedy ski operators managed to sneak in on the few nights of below freezing temperatures. Even much of this effort went for naught because Saturday and Sunday's rain wiped out all but the heartiest snow strips. The rationale of the weather-cycle freaks is that this year the snow won't all be dumped at the beginning of the season and then left to melt...
IRONICALLY--EVEN IF this winter produces the expected heavy snowfalls--it could be one of the most disasterous and harrowing winters which ski areas have yet encountered. This year they must deal with another problem which could even be worse than the weather has been in the past: The energy shortage may be a saving grace for President Nixon, but it has already put ski resort operators in a state of panic. They recognize that even though Nixon made no mention of fuel cutbacks to the ski industry in either of his two energy messages, they may be among...
Many pilots belong to one of the country's more than 200 clubs, which conduct a variety of meets, outings and contests. They gather at such airstrips as Sugarbush Soaring's field at Warren, Vt., built in 1966 by a former ski-lodge owner, John Macone. He calls it the nation's first "soaring resort." Pilots circle over the beautiful Mad River valley at leisurely air speeds of 45 m.p.h. to 55 m.p.h...
Kosher Kitchens. The whole idea of assimilation has come to seem to some Reform Jews what it has always seemed to the Orthodox-the road to godlessness. Quietly symbolic of this reverse evolution is Rabbi Alexander Moshe Schindler, the roundish, cigar-smoking World War II ski trooper who was chosen to replace Rabbi Eisendrath as the U.A.H.c.'s president. Schindler was born in Munich 47 years ago. He joined the flood of refugees who fled to the U.S. in the late 1930s, eventually becoming the U.A.H.C.'S director of education and-six years ago-its vice president. Unlike...